Apple announced on Monday a much faster iPhone that's half the price of the current model.
The iPhone 3G is cheaper, faster and better. It's also one of the riskiest business moves Apple has ever made
Steve Jobs unveils Apple's latest incarnation of its revolutionary device, with a fanfare that seems justified
In October 2003, as the computer world buzzed about what cool new gadget he would introduce next, Apple CEO Steve Jobs - then presiding over the most dramatic corporate turnaround in the history of Silicon Valley - found himself confronting a life-and-death decision.
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs unveiled movie rentals from iTunes, a superthin notebook computer and new software for the iPhone and iPod iTouch at his Macworld presentation in San Francisco on Tuesday.
One of the great frustrations encountered by today's most powerful people is that the power they've worked so hard to amass may just stop working. It isn't that they could lose what they have - it's that it simply may no longer matter to the world.
Management guru Jim Collins once called Steve Jobs the "Beethoven of business." He was marveling at the Apple founder's ability, time and again, to conjure digital objects of desire from esoteric blends of chips, disks, plastic, and software, and then promote them with his own alluring brand of performance art. But Jobs might also be called its Machiavelli, a man who can bend suppliers, partners, and even industries to his will.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been subpoenaed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to give a deposition in a stock-options backdating case against Apple's former general counsel, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press Thursday.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs apologized and offered $100 credits Thursday to people who shelled out up to $599 for an iPhone this summer and were burned when the company chopped $200 from the expensive model's price.
It was a match made in geek heaven: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates together on the same stage for the first time in twenty years. And the audience, 500 of them, had paid $4,000 for the privilege of seeing it all.
Apple announced on Monday a much faster iPhone that's half the price of the current model.
The iPhone 3G is cheaper, faster and better. It's also one of the riskiest business moves Apple has ever made
Steve Jobs unveils Apple's latest incarnation of its revolutionary device, with a fanfare that seems justified
In October 2003, as the computer world buzzed about what cool new gadget he would introduce next, Apple CEO Steve Jobs - then presiding over the most dramatic corporate turnaround in the history of Silicon Valley - found himself confronting a life-and-death decision.
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs unveiled movie rentals from iTunes, a superthin notebook computer and new software for the iPhone and iPod iTouch at his Macworld presentation in San Francisco on Tuesday.
One of the great frustrations encountered by today's most powerful people is that the power they've worked so hard to amass may just stop working. It isn't that they could lose what they have - it's that it simply may no longer matter to the world.
Management guru Jim Collins once called Steve Jobs the "Beethoven of business." He was marveling at the Apple founder's ability, time and again, to conjure digital objects of desire from esoteric blends of chips, disks, plastic, and software, and then promote them with his own alluring brand of performance art. But Jobs might also be called its Machiavelli, a man who can bend suppliers, partners, and even industries to his will.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been subpoenaed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to give a deposition in a stock-options backdating case against Apple's former general counsel, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press Thursday.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs apologized and offered $100 credits Thursday to people who shelled out up to $599 for an iPhone this summer and were burned when the company chopped $200 from the expensive model's price.
It was a match made in geek heaven: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates together on the same stage for the first time in twenty years. And the audience, 500 of them, had paid $4,000 for the privilege of seeing it all.
Six Apple board members issued a statement of confidence Wednesday in the Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation's conclusion of a stock options probe into Apple, as well as CEO Steve Jobs' "integrity and ability to lead."
The following statement is attributed to Mr. Fred Anderson's attorney Jerome Roth, a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in San Francisco.
Dear FSB: I've worked in the corporate world for more than 25 years, doing hardware and software development. I have thought about starting a business but I haven't found the right one. Where can I get started exploring business ideas that make sense? --Isaac Champagne, Naperville, Ill.
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Apple Chairman and CEO Steve Jobs, whose company's stock-options practices are already the subject of a Securities and Exchange Commission probe, agreed to a large stock-options grant to a key filmmaker at his Pixar Animation Studios in 2001 as well, according to a published report.
Last month, when Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone at the annual Macworld expo in San Francisco, he declared that the hyped-up handset's killer app would be "making calls."
The music business is in a funk. Everybody knows that.
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department questioned Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs about backdated stock options at the San Francisco federal building last week, according to a report Tuesday.
Click on the iTunes music store and punch in "Beatles" under artist search. More than 50 albums will pop up, including Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Play the Beatles, but none are the real dea...
When Apple Computer disclosed on Dec. 29 the results of its own internal investigation into whether CEO Steve Jobs engaged in options-timing irregularities, the probe, conducted by a special commit...
For better or worse, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs can't seem to stay out of the headlines.
For the digerati, the annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas is about to begin.
Apple Computer disclosed in a regulatory filing Friday that Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs was aware that some stock options granted to him and other executives at Apple between 1997 and 2002 were backdated and that the company was restating financial results for the past few years as a result of the backdating.
Investors expressed concern Thursday regarding the latest reports about options grants made to Apple Computer's enigmatic chief executive officer Steve Jobs.
Power is highly mutable. Take the world's two richest men, a couple of bridge-playing buddies named Bill and Warren. They've been immensely wealthy for years, sure. But now, by combining their fortunes in a single philanthropic organization, they, along with Bill's wife, Melinda, just might wipe out deadly infectious diseases. In part because of the ever-shifting value of influence in the business world, this year we decided to eliminate rankings from our annual study of the subject and instead provide, literally, snapshots of power: In the gallery that follows are 25 portraits, photographed by Albert Watson, of the characters who had the most impact on 2006.
Plenty of the usual "oohs" and "aahs" to go around when Apple Computer took the wraps off its movie download strategy Tuesday, but the iPod maker might have a harder time dominating digital movies than it has had ruling digital music.
Steve Jobs helped save the music biz from file sharers like Shawn Fanning and Wayne Rosso. Now Fanning and Rosso--the creator of Napster and former president of Grokster, respectively--want to save...
Since Steve Jobs agreed to sell Pixar to Disney for $7.4 billion, speculation has abounded about his motives, in particular whether he is plotting someday to vie for the crown now worn by Disney CE...
Since Steve Jobs agreed to sell Pixar to Disney for $7.4 billion, speculation has abounded about his motives, in particular whether he is plotting someday to vie for the crown now worn by Disney CEO Robert Iger.
The master of disruption is at it again. With his two remarkable companies -- Apple Computer and animated movie house Pixar -- dominating the headlines, Steve Jobs finds himself in the kind of position that most mad-genius tech wunderkinds can only fantasize about: thrilling consumers while wreaking havoc in multiple industries. Apple sold 100 iPods a minute in the fourth quarter, and its iTunes Music Store could account for 10% of all music sales in the U.S. this year. It's only fitting that the release in mid-January of a new line of superfast Mac computers featuring Intel chips came just as Apple's market cap briefly passed that of rival Dell. The company turns 30 on April 1. Happy birthday, Apple.
Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs got a good laugh at the expense of rival Dell Inc., according to a report Monday.
Steve Jobs, the chairman and CEO of Pixar Animation Studios, would be open to a sale of the company at the right price, according to a published report.
"THERE'S JUST ONE MORE THING," SAYS Steve Jobs, as he does near the end of most Apple product launches. The phrase delights the Mac faithful in the audience in San Jose because they have come to be...
Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs personally called the family of a 15-year-old New Yorker to offer his condolences after the teenager was killed last week during a fight over an iPod, according to a report published Wednesday.
Silicon Valley guards its corporate secrets the way a mother grizzly guards her cubs. And when it comes to keeping a lid on information, Steve Jobs is the fiercest bear around. When Jobs returned t...
Steve Jobs was rocking back and forth in his chair at the head of his conference room table--and venting. It was January 2002, and the target of his ire was the music business. The industry was ree...
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The fact that Apple chief Steve Jobs will be sitting out the month of August to recover from surgery to remove a small, cancerous tumor has prompted more than meditations on his mortality. It has a...
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, owns a home in Woodside, Calif. that most people would consider a pretty decent place to live.
Apple investors have already been through a period without CEO Steve Jobs at the helm and that didn't turn out too well.
Pixar Animation Studios is not moving rapidly to find a new distribution partner for its films and may be reaching a distribution deal with Walt Disney Co., with which it ended talks in January, according to a published report.
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At 10 A.M. on A Friday in Manhattan's SoHo, even Apple Computer's newest, toniest retail outlet ought to be a dead zone. Yet there's a stream of customers at the service counter checking on repairs...
A couple of weeks ago Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs bounded onstage at the Macworld trade show in San Francisco to engage once again in his unique brand of performance art--the keynote speech. This...
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Here we go again. Apple Computer, Silicon Valley's paragon of dysfunctional management and fumbled techno-dreams, is back in crisis mode, scrambling lugubriously in slow motion to deal with implodi...
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